Today is the 6th Friday of the #GreatReturnMarch. Last Friday there was a more organized attempt to reach the #GazaFence & Israeli army promised to respond harsher. Israel also declared human rights laws do not apply to the protesters. 48 killed & ~7,000 wounded so far in Gaza

#update: 100s of protesters are already near the #GazaFence (the main protests will begin after Friday prayers). Media reports Israeli army is using tear gas. Palestinian media report 1 captured by the Israeli army

And a other piece of @realDonaldTrump's "ultimate deal" was revealed by @yanircozin today: Israeli will cut off 4 Palestinian neighborhoods from East Jerusalem and they will later serve as the "Palestinian capital". Sounds promising, right? #2StateIllusion

Oh & those 4 neighborhoods do not connect & even have Jewish neighborhood between some of them

Now @eliorlevy reports Mahmoud Abbas apologizes for his antisemitic remarks & say he "respects Judaism". He still needs to go, for the sake of everyone living here (& not because of his antisemitism, although it doesn't help). Unfortunately, the PLO convention just reelected him

#update: Israeli army orders farmers near #Gaza not to touch the Molotov-kites because there might be explosives attached to them

#update: 1 protester directly hit with Israeli tear gas canister - Palestinian media. Those canisters seriously wounded Palestinians in the previous #GreatReturnMarch protests. The Israeli army is testing its new tear gas drones on the protesters near the #GazaFence

Israeli army to #GreatReturnMarch protesters via loudspeakers: "we don't want an escalation. We suggest children will stay away from the #GazaFence & advise the adults to keep them away & stay away. If you think you could do what you did last week, you are wrong" - via @eliorlevy

#update: #Gaza MoH is urging the international community to intervene after Israeli forces targeted Palestinian personnel with tear gas during the #GreatReturnMarch & the attacks are preventing them from offering medical assistance to injured protesters

As reported, the Israeli army is using drones against the Molotov-kites over Gaza. Could it be the reason for the success of protesters in downing the drones? Here's a video of Israeli drone V Palestinian kite Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos

Recap: 1,143 Palestinians wounded today, 83 of them shot by Israeli snipers (#Gaza MoH), yet the Israeli army seemed more restrained than last Fridays. 2 attempts to "breach the #GazaFence" blocked w/o deaths.
Hoping the 3 seriously wounded protesters make it through the night

And if you want to see how does it look like when the new Israeli tear gas drones attack the #GreatReturnMarch protest camps, where families stay 100s of meters away from the #GazaFence, here is an example

Thanks to Trump's embassy move, #Nakba70 protests start a day early. Israeli army expects West Bank protests & 100,000 demonstrators in #Gaza, is preparing to use lethal force against them & again threatens to air bomb Gaza. 49 Palestinians killed & 9,545 wounded so far in Gaza

Myth: the Arabs attacked the Jews & lost & then escaped.
Reality: the ethnic cleansing of what later became Israel started before the Arab armies intervened or even before the British left. In fact, most Palestinian cities were conquered before the declaration of independence.

Myth: the small Jewish army won a miraculous victory against the much larger Arab armies.
Fact: the only army that equaled the Jewish army during the war was the British-trained Jordanian Legion, which generally respected the UN partition plan & didn't invade what became Israel.

There is no doubt #Israel was afraid of the Syrian air defence system, hiding behind two civilian aircraft and endangering the lives of hundreds of civilians, for fear of the new air-defence system delivered by #Russia to #Syria./+

Syria didn't have so many anti-air defence system before the war or even until 2017. It is thanks to #Israel continuous violation of the Syrian airspace and the anger of #Russia that a certain balance has been created, to the benefit of #Syria./+

The tunnels #Hezbollah burrowed are meant to facilitate the movement and infiltration into northern #Israel of hundreds of its fighters as part of its well-established military doctrine that calls for “the conquest of the Galilee.” jcpa.org/article/hizbul…

6yrs ago #Jerusalem, #IDF Rep:
"we are now located in the SAME building where the Foreign Journalists are,we have close working relationships w/ hundreds of journalists. In addition we launched media project working in many platforms,twitter in Arabic, Russian, French & English." Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos

How #Israel-i Propaganda (#Hasbara) Works: #TheLuntzDocument
If you want to understand how the #propaganda works you need to read the Luntz document -- "The Key," Luntz says, "is the Claim that the Fight is Over Ideology, Not Land. About Terror, & Not Territory."#Palestine#BDS Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos

#Israel strongly believes that #Iran is staging weapons system in #Syria in places like Aleppo, T4 in E Homs & even Boukamal, and that such weapons are intended for use against Israel & not for purposes of supporting Syrian Army against ISIS or insurgents. Is Israel wrong? =>

2-Interestingly, as the risks of a wider conflict pitting Israel & Iran seem to gather steam in policy circles, the facts on the grounds concerning Iran's presence in Syria have been heading the other direction of late. Set below are the reasons why: ==>

3-It was always the case that the presence of Iran in Syria was positively correlated with the intensity of the war and the probability of Assad's fall from power. As the latter risks have diminished, one ought to expect a similar retracement in Iran's influence & presence ==>